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8 verbatim mandatory provisions from S-2024-029.
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • The collaborative law process may be commenced prior to the filing of an action with the court or after the filing of an action. • Notice of Collaborative Law Participation Agreement Because the collaborative law process requires each party to be represented by an attorney as set forth in section 61.56(4), Florida Statutes, the Notice of Collaborative Law Participation Agreement will be a joint notice, in substantial conformity with Florida Family Law Rules Form 12.985(c), and must be signed by both individual collaborative attorneys. • (a) enter a stay of the proceedings ex parte, or (b) notify counsel for both parties that the application for stay must be scheduled for a non-evidentiary hearing. • Concluding the Collaborative Law Process When a proceeding in a collaborative matter is pending before a court, counsel must promptly file a written notice with the court, consistent with Florida Family Law Rule of Procedure 12.745(b)(2), upon the occurrence of any of the following events concluding the collaborative law process: • Resolution of a part of the collaborative matter, evidenced by a signed record, in which the parties agree that the remaining parts of the collaborative matter will not be resolved in the collaborative law process; • The provision of notice by either party to the other that the collaborative law process is concluded (consistent with Florida Family Law Rule of Procedure 12.745(b)(l)(B), the notice must not identify the party serving the notice that the collaborative law process is concluded); • The attorney who is no longer representing a party must promptly provide notice to the court, which notice must identify the date that the notice of discharge or withdrawal of the collaborative attorney required by Florida Family Law Rule of Procedure 12.745(b)(2)(D), was provided to the parties; • Thirty-one (31) days after the date that the notice of discharge or withdrawal of the collaborative attorney was provided to the parties, the collaborative law process will be concluded and any abatement of a proceeding which was based upon the filing of a Notice of Collaborative Law Participation Agreement automatically terminated, unless a successor collaborative attorney was retained, both collaborative attorneys and the parties reaffirm the collaborative law participation agreement by the signing of an amended collaborative law participation agreement, and within 30 days of the date the notice of discharge or 4 of 6 -Administrative Order S-2024-029 (Collaborative Family Law Practice) -- 4 of 6 -- withdrawal of the collaborative attorney was provided to the parties, counsel files a Notice of Amended Collaborative Law Participation Agreement in substantial conformity with Florida Family Law Rules Form 12.985(c). 7.
The collaborative law process may be commenced prior to the filing of an action with the court or after the filing of an action.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: af99c987dd963d73956bba2469ab06dc5b62b95c8def4c10b6969da31ffb39e7 (3172213 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
A DV injunction petition is reviewed promptly; the court may issue a temporary injunction ex parte, and when it does, a full evidentiary hearing is generally set within 15 days. There is no filing fee.
Judge Lee requires a detailed emergency motion stating the issues, why an emergency hearing is necessary, and the presentation time needed — the FSC-template standard now appearing across 2026 division procedures.
Judge Thomas: an emergency motion not properly filed with the clerk will not be treated as an emergency — the clerk channel is the only emergency channel.